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Foreword / Martin E.P. Seligman -- Preface / Louis Tay and James O. Pawelski -- Introduction: the role of the arts and humanities in human flourishing / Louis Tay and James O. Pawelski -- The positive humanities: culture and human flourishing / James O. Pawelski -- The history of the humanities and human flourishing / Darrin McMahon -- Towards a contextual model of arts and humanities engagement and human flourishing / Yerin Shim -- Flourishing effects of integrating the arts and humanities in STEM education: a review of past studies and an agenda for future research / Hoda Vaziri and Norman M. Bradburn -- Art, music, and literature: do the humanities make our lives richer, happier, and more meaningful? / Erin Westgate and Shigehiro Oishi -- Lessons for positive arts and humanities from the science of meaning in life / Alexis N. Wilkinson and Laura A. King -- Cultivating psychological well-being through arts-based interventions / Olena Helen Darewych -- The neuroscience of well-being: a general framework and its relation to humanistic flourishing / Yoed N. Kenett and Anjan Chatterjee -- How to encourage people to engage with the arts and humanities: suggestions from self-efficacy theory and research / James E. Maddux and Evan M. Kleiman -- Understanding and improving emotion regulation: lessons from psychological science and the humanities / Joseph Ciarrochi, Louise Hayes, and Baljinder Sahdra -- Character and virtues in the arts and humanities / Willibald Ruch and Fabian Gander -- Holocaust and humanity: depicting realities while creating pathways for future upstanders, strengths use, and flourishing / Edward Jacobs, Michael Berenbaum, Ryan Niemiec and Neal H. Mayerson -- The role of passion in the arts and humanities: how quality of engagement matters / Robert J. Vallerand, Anna Sverdlik, and Arielle Bonneville-Roussy -- Flow in the arts and humanities: on cultivating human complexity / Katherine Vrooman, Kelsey Procter Finley, Jeanne Nakamura, and Mihal